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Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

One of the things I find about getting older is that I seem to get louder, more voluble; that I constantly have to walk around repressing my vitality.

I'm trying to write something in which you know that it's all about sex but you never see any.

Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.

In those days, the early 1980s, TV and film were interchangeable.

When they speak, dead frogs fall out of their mouths.

Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

I'm vey bad at marshaling arguments. I can't, at a dinner party, explain why I'm a socialist and why others should be socialists as well.

Style is the art of getting yourself out of the way, not putting yourself in it.

One of the depressing things in England is the total orthodoxy: the law is handed down from Downing Street.

If you kill a character people feel sad. That's too easy.

The act of writing is the act of discovering what you believe.

Never take advice from anyone with no investment in the outcome.

Trying to be a socialist and a libertarian is obviously a very difficult balancing act, which nobody has pulled off too successfully in this century.

Oh damn and fuck show business and all its ways.

The future of American film lies on television.

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

On September 11th, America changed. Yes. It got much stupider.

To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.

No one but a fool is always right.

The world was created this morning. No such thing as the past ...

As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time.

Children always turn to the light.

Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.

I actually think love changes everything. I think it's the only thing worth having.

An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.

'Via Dolorosa' is the only thing I have ever acted in my life, professionally, and I'll never act again.

Insofar as I'm good at directing, it's because I've become a writer.

America is a crippled giant, England is a sick gnome.

The one thing that 'Via Dolorosa' has is no opinions. To me, curiosity is 50 times as valuable as opinion.

You can't get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.

The great mystery of adaptation is that true fidelity can only be achieved through lavish promiscuity.

I believe love opens people up.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Surely our job while we're here on Earth is to learn about the world, not to create parallel universes.

In the '70s, terrorism was much more serious, in that many more people got killed.

The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft.

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

Smiles are the language of love.

You make love like a wounded panther. You are like a paintshop on fire.

I never used to kill characters, because I thought killing characters was cheating.

I fell into writing plays by accident. But the reason I write plays is that it's the only thing I'm any good at.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

In oratory the will must predominate.

No single move traps the king.